Author: Ryan Ariano

As the dossier spins out of control – and despite the Dotard’s attempt to distract us by releasing the JFK files (I can’t wait to find out Ted Cruz’s dad’s the real assassin), one thing I have yet to see is the massive Trump connection displayed by Cambridge Analytica’s reaching...

When you see that men get rich more easily by graft than by work, and your laws no longer protect you against them, but protect them against you, you may know that your society is doomed.” — Ayn Rand on crony capitalism Ayn Rand was a poorly-edited philosopher who filled...

While the southeast drowns, the west burns. But you’d never know about that from the national debate. Politicians have fallen about themselves to be the first, the loudest, the most patriotic supporter of those poor souls ravaged by Harvey and Irma. Yet there’s been little said about the wildfires. And...

Money can’t buy happiness But it could buy me a boat, it could buy me a truck to pull it It could buy me a Yeti 110 iced down with some silver bullets…” — Chris Janson, “Buy Me a Boat” The presidency of America’s 45th Commander in Chief will make...

“Yeah, so Uber just sent something out to all its drivers that if you want to continue to drive for them, you can’t sue them.” So says my Lyft driver last week in L.A., just the first of many in a weekendlong experiment that added to my growing suspicion that...

“Crooked Hillary” went the cries. “Lock her up,” they chanted. They accused her of manipulations and profiteering; berated her for using her private email and especially her shady ties to foreign leaders. So as Donald Trump’s presidency rolls into its 100 days dragged down by an unprecedented amount of corruption...

We shoulda seen it coming. He was the bastard son haunting all of us libertines in our darkest nightmares, the mutant offspring of the last 20 years of pop culture and “eat it, squares” smart-ass progressivism. And now, in great company with Pauly D and Puck, with all the “Real...

There are a lot of explanations for the unexpected rise of a crass businessman to the most powerful seat in the world. There’s the actual fake stories planted by kids with hungry wallets (versus the “fake” news that President 45 labels anything that doesn’t echo his propaganda machine). There’s misogyny. There’s...

We’ve lost Yemen. The first casualty in Trump’s embrace of the global fashion trend isolationism is a Middle East nation and key player in America’s war on terror, one that has continued to help us despite many years of US drone strikes that have killed civilians and flattened villages. President 45 ran on...

This week our team was doing our usual digging through the trash outside Trump Towers when we found a thumb drive wrapped in a note scribbled in purple crayon saying “For Daddy: This is Team Trump.” Later, wikiLeaks published private Trump gchats before it was quickly taken down — the only...